From Parentheses to Perception: How Your Code Becomes Someone Else's Reality

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Channel: node.js · 2018 · Science & Technology

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We, humans, create software for other humans to use and enjoy. But how does code become neurons firing in someone else’s brain? This talk will take us on the journey this information takes, from the mind of the programmer to the mind of a web app user. We’ll follow the ideas starting as code, going through HTML, CSS, and JavaScript interpreters and compilers and becoming pixels in a browser through the browser’s rendering process. The saga continues with how a human will view these pixels, first becoming neural signals that then paint a meaningful, interactive picture in their mind that they perceive as reality.

Jenna Zeigen
Senior Frontend Engineer, Slack

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